AE006
Physics of Lightning Interaction with Tall Objects

Session ID#: 80084

Session Description:
Tall objects are preferred targets for upward and downward lightning strikes. Understanding how lightning interacts with tall objects is important for characterizing various lightning processes and improving lightning protection schemes. Much progress has been made in studying tall-object lightning, based on high-speed optical and VHF channel imaging, direct measurements of current in towers, and remote measurements of electromagnetic field waveforms. This special session will serve to attract contributions from different parts of the world concerning recent findings in lightning physics based on observations of lightning interaction with tall objects. Papers are solicited on all aspects of lightning studies involving tall objects (including triggered lightning studies, in which lightning is initiated by a rapidly extending thin wire below the cloud base). Results from field and laboratory experiments, theoretical work, and numerical modeling, as well as inferences from lightning locating system data, are welcome.
Index Terms:

3304 Atmospheric electricity [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3324 Lightning [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3394 Instruments and techniques [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Primary Convener:  Amitabh Nag, Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Physics and Space Sciences, Melbourne, FL, United States
Convener:  Vladimir A Rakov, Univ of FL-Elect & Comp Engr, Gainesville, FL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Amitabh Nag, Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Physics and Space Sciences, Melbourne, FL, United States
 
Electric Field Characteristics of the Current Pulses measured at the Peissenberg Tower (489455)
Christian Paul, Neubiberg, Germany and Fridolin Heinrich Heidler, Bundeswehr University Munich, Neubiberg, Germany
 
Characteristics of Upward Leader Currents Measured at the KSC Industrial Area Tower (Invited) (491856)
Kenneth L Cummins1, Amitabh Nag2, Mathieu N. Plaisir3, Matthew Austin3, David Crawford4, Jennifer Wilson4, Robert G Brown4, Carl Noggle5 and Hamid K Rassoul6, (1)University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Science, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)Florida Institute of Technology, APSS, Melbourne, FL, United States, (3)Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Physics and Space Sciences, Melbourne, FL, United States, (4)NASA Kennedy Space Center, Kennedy Space Center, FL, United States, (5)The Lightning Works, Tucson, AZ, United States, (6)Florida Inst Tech, Physics & Space Science, Melbourne, FL, United States
 
Process of A Multiple-Stroke Positive Cloud-to-Ground Lightning and Its Trigger Effect to the Upward Lightning (510669)
Shanfeng Yuan1, Xiushu Qie2, Rubin Jiang1, Dongfang Wang1, Zhuling Sun1 and Abhay Srivastava1, (1)Key Laboratory of Middle Atmosphere and Global Environment Observation (LAGEO), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Key Laboratory of Middle Atmosphere and Global Environment Observation (LAGEO), Insititute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
High-speed Video Observation of a Lightning Flash Producing X-rays (519471)
Marcelo M Saba1, Marco A. S. Ferro2, Edith Tueros Cuadros1, Diogo M Custodio3, Amitabh Nag4, Carina Schumann5, Gerald Vernon Cooray6, Amanda Paiva1, Paola B Lauria1, Daniele Medeiros1, Pasan Hettiarachchi7 and Hamid K Rassoul8, (1)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (2)Institute of Aeronautics and Space, São José dos Campos, Brazil, (3)Institute of Aeronautics and Space, S. Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (4)Florida Institute of Technology, APSS, Melbourne, FL, United States, (5)University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, (6)Division of Electricity, Uppsala, Sweden, (7)Uppsala University, Department of Engineering Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, (8)Florida Inst Tech, Physics & Space Science, Melbourne, FL, United States
 
Characteristics of upward connecting leaders from Tokyo Skytree associated with negative downward flashes (526555)
Mikihisa Saito1, Masaru Ishii2, Toru Miki1 and Takeo Sonehara3, (1)CRIEPI, Yokosuka, Japan, (2)The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (3)Shoden Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
 
Optical Observation of Lightning Striking Distance on Tall-objects with Different Heights in Guangzhou (531379)
Weitao Lyu1, Qi Qi1, Bin Wu1, Lyuwen Chen2, Ying Ma1 and Ruijiao Jiang1, (1)State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Guangzhou, China
 
Charge Transferred to Ground during Different Stages of Upward Lightning Flashes from the Gaisberg Tower (543101)
Naomi Watanabe1, Amitabh Nag2, Gerhard Diendorfer3, Hannes Pichler3, Wolfgang Schulz4 and Hamid K Rassoul1, (1)Florida Institute of Technology, Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science, Melbourne, FL, United States, (2)Florida Institute of Technology, APSS, Melbourne, FL, United States, (3)OVE Service GmbH, Dept. ALDIS A-1190, Vienna, Austria, (4)OVE Service GmbH, Dept. ALDIS A-1190, ALDIS, Salzburg, Austria
 
Meteorological conditions during self-initiated upward lightning at the Säntis tower (Switzerland) (553114)
Joan Montanya1, Nicolau Pineda2, Jordi Figueras i Ventura3, David Romero4, Amirhossein Mostajabi5, Mohammad Azadifar6, Antonio Sunjerga5, Farhad Rachidi7, Marcos Rubinstein8, van der Velde Oscar1, Patricia Altube2, Nikola Besic9, Jacopo Grazioli10, Urs Germann3 and Earle Williams11, (1)Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Electrical Engineering, Terrassa, Spain, (2)Meteorological Service of Catalonia, Remote Sensing Unit, Barcelona, Spain, (3)MeteoSwiss, Locarno-Monti, Switzerland, (4)UPC, Terrassa - Barcelone, Spain, (5)Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, (6)University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, (7)Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, (8)University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, (9)EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, (10)MeteoSwiss, Radar Satellite and Nowcasting Division, Locarno, Switzerland, (11)Parsons Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
The contrasting behavior of positive and negative upward lightning leaders evidenced by simultaneous current and VHF location measurements (555542)
Caitano L. da Silva1, William P Winn2, Kenneth Eack3, Harald E Edens3, Graydon D Aulich4, Steven J Hunyady4, Richard Sonnenfeld5 and Paul R Krehbiel6, (1)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Socorro, NM, United States, (2)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, United States, (3)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Department of Physics and Langmuir Laboratory, Socorro, NM, United States, (4)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Langmuir Laboratory, Socorro, NM, United States, (5)Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Socorro, NM, United States, (6)New Mexico Tech, Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Socorro, NM, United States
 
Upward lightning observations to tall structures in South Africa (563308)
Carina Schumann, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Hugh G.P. Hunt, University of the Witwatersrand, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Johannesburg, South Africa, Marcelo M Saba, INPE National Institute for Space Research, S. Jose Dos Campos, Brazil, Susan Jane Webb, Univ Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and Tom Warner, Z T Research, Rapid City, SD, United States
 
Characteristics of Two Bipolar Triggered Lightning Flashes with Twice Current Polarity Reversals (574610)
Fengquan Li1, Xiushu Qie1, Zhuling Sun2, Rubin Jiang1, Guoying Tang3 and Mingyuan Liu2, (1)Insititute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu, China
 
On the transition from precursor breakdown to sustained upward leader in rocket-triggered lightning (596881)
Xiao Li Jr, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Middle Atmosphere and Global Environment Observation (LAGEO), Beijing, China, Gaopeng Lu, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS, Beijing, China; Key Laboratory of Middle Atmosphere and Global Environment Observation (LAGEO), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Rubin Jiang, Insititute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Hongbo Zhang, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, China, Yanfeng Fan, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Beijing, China, Huan Ren, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, Yang Zhang, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather (LASW), Beijing, China and Xiushu Qie, Inst. of Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, China
 
On the nature of transient re-illuminations of decayed branches of negative stepped leaders (599484)
Ziqin Ding, University of Florida, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, Vladimir A Rakov, University of Florida, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Gainesville, FL, United States, Yanan Zhu, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States and Manh D Tran, Rhombus Power Inc., Moffett Field, CA, United States
 
Pulses in Upward Negative Lightning at the Säntis Tower in Northeastern Switzerland (609257)
Mohammad Azadifar, Ecublens, Vaud, Switzerland, Lixia He, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, Marcos Rubinstein, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, Farhad Rachidi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, Vladimir A Rakov, Univ of FL-Elect & Comp Engr, Gainesville, FL, United States, Gerald Vernon Cooray, Division of Electricity, Uppsala, Sweden and Davide Pavanello, University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, Sion, Switzerland
 
A Modeling Study of the Spatial Structure of Electric Fields Near Tall Towers (617025)
Christopher Biagi, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, United States, Amitabh Nag, Florida tech, Melbourne, FL, United States, Kenneth L Cummins, University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Science, Tucson, AZ, United States and Hamid K Rassoul, Florida Inst Tech, Physics & Space Science, Melbourne, FL, United States
 
Optical and Electro-magnetic Waveform Characteristics of Canton Tower-Strokes (623865)
Chen Lyuwen1, Weitao Lyu2, Ma Ying3, Qi Qi2, Bin Wu2 and Yanan Zhu4, (1)Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology, Guangzhou, China, (2)State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China, (4)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States
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